September 4

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NOTE TO N. S. LEPESHINSKAYA¹

Comrade Lepeshinskaya!

I request:

1) Insert into your 2 copies of the theses² my amendments (in red ink and pencil), noting that these are my amendments.

2) Send the original of Kiselev's theses to Molotov³ after this.

3) Send 2 copies of the theses to Petrograd, enclosing them in the attached envelopes (to Oborin and Moiseev⁴).

4/IX [1921] Lenin

¹ N. S. Lepeshinskaya — employee of V. I. Lenin's secretariat (from 1918 to 1923).

² This concerns the theses of A. S. Kiselev "Basic Propositions on the Tariff Question," worked out by a group of members of the MSNK and approved by a conference of leaders (comprising 30 persons) of the largest production associations (see Lenin Collection XXIII, pp. 258–260). A. S. Kiselev — party member since 1898. In 1921–1923 — chairman of the Small Sovnarkom.

³ In a note to V. M. Molotov of September 4, 1921, V. I. Lenin proposed sending the theses to all members of the Politburo and ratifying them by telephone; he reported that on September 5 he was sending the theses to Petrograd to Oborin (see Complete Collected Works, vol. 53, pp. 172–173, 175).

⁴ V. P. Oborin — in the party since 1904. In 1921 — secretary of the collegium of the electro-section at the Petrograd sovnarkhoz. At the XV Congress of the VKP(b) was expelled from the party for participation in the anti-party group of "democratic centralism."

E. I. Moiseev — electrical engineer. In 1921 — head of the main technical-standardization bureau of the electro-section of the Petrograd provincial sovnarkhoz.

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# LETTER TO B. S. STOMONYAKOV
8/IX [1921]

Comrade Stomonyakov!

I received and read your note on the matter, i.e., Kopp's negotiations*. Be that as it may, we have a vital interest in a treaty with the German group, and we shall support in every way the desire (if it exists: one must seek it out, nurture it) to be against the Entente.